'Nederlandse universiteiten schuwen debat met andersdenkenden'
Is er op Nederlandse universiteiten nog wel ruimte voor een open debat? "Radicale vrijheid van meningsuiting bestaat in Nederland niet."
Dit is de omgekeerde wereld. De academische vrijheid wordt bedreigd doordat onze onderzoekers die zich uitspreken in het publieke debat over βomstredenβ onderwerpen als snel het doelwit worden van online bedreigingen, met name uit extreemrechtse hoek.
16.09.2025 10:05 β π 14 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Critical AI seminar series
Register via https://bit.ly/uvacriticalai2526
Program and Invited Speakers:
Upcoming seminars
November 12, 5-6:30 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Louise Amoore and Alexander Campolo, βOn reading machine learningβ
January 13, 5:30-7 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Fabian Offert on
βVector Mediaβ
March 18, 3-4:30 (CEST): Invited talk by Helene Ratner and Nanna Thylstrup on βEcologies of evaluationβ
May 20, 12-1:30 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Thao Phan on βTesting-in-the-wildβ
π¨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 β¨
This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social β¨
Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
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Frozen Antagonisms: Charlie Kirk, Groypers, and the Meme Politics of Violence β OILab
Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...
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The last few weeks I worked 4CAT's LLM features. We're not free from Silicon Valley APIs yet, but you have more options in terms of providers (including Mistral) and it's also possible to use local LLMs through LM Studio and Ollama.
Check it out:
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Van harte :)
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This was also one of the more interesting methodologies I've worked on. We sourced ~3000 questions from 4chan and leftychan, rephrased them through LLMs, queried them on Google and Bing, and scraped the SERP contents through Selenium, 4CAT, and Zoekplaatje.
Code: github.com/sal-uva/radi...
12.06.2025 16:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Google relies heavily on Reddit, showing up in 75% of SERPs(!). Controversial topics that are not enriched are thus often "relayed" to the amateur interpretations of Redditors (see below).
We call for continued SERP audits to interrogate the volatility of enrichment amidst changing political tides.
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We find that controversial searches get less components. Some keywords were even blacklisted from enrichment altogether, including "trump" and "biden".
This suggests Google and Bing tend avoid burning their fingers on certain political topics, raising concerns on the reliability of these systems.
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πNew paper! GuillΓ©n Torres and I study "enrichment" on Google and Bing as a form of content moderation.
Main finding: enrichment can be erratic, with components like "AI Overviews" even being banned for certain political queries like those including "trump".
Pre-print: ssrn.com/abstract=528...
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Components added to Google and Bing for controversial and non-controverisal queries
Components added to Google and Bing by controversiality and toxicity
Components added to Google and Bing by different categories
We find that controversial searches get less components. Some keywords were even blacklisted from enrichment altogether, including "trump" and "biden".
This suggests Google and Bing tend avoid burning their fingers on certain political topics, raising concerns on the reliability of these systems.
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nos.nl artikelen met verwijzingen naar klimaatverandering en Ten Hag
Op nos.nl ging de laatste vijftien jaar even vaak over klimaatverandering als over Erik ten Hag.
(2853 vs. 2766 artikelen/updates)
@xrnl.bsky.social @nieuws.nos.nl
04.06.2025 17:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
van harte!!
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Tired of looking at Excel rows when investigating social media data? 4CAT's new Explorer feature is here to help!
04.06.2025 16:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
yes een nieuwe kans voor Schier
03.06.2025 08:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Juist het minst door AD en de Telegraaf! De grafiek is 'stacked' dus hun aandeel is het minst tov NRC en de Volkskrant. Maar andere manieren van meten zouden interessant zijn inderdaad (bv. om te corrigeren voor lengte van artikelen of te kijken hoe centraal het thema is).
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Nee, omdat je geen volledig archief tot je beschikking hebt. Maar wat wel mogelijk is is om andere trefwoorden pakken en het daarmee vergelijken (bv. "ajax").
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tijd om NRC te shorten
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Na ons artikel uit 2021 over klimaatverslaggeving (www.groene.nl/artikel/we-h...) was het tijd voor een data-update.
Gelukkig is meer aandacht voor de klimaatcrisis in de vier grootste kranten. Maar er is nog steeds een golfbeweging gaande en aandacht is de laatste maanden weer afgenomen.
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Vacancy β Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies
Would you like to teach on cutting-edge theories, methods, and questions in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!
Weβre hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
21.05.2025 07:24 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Heeft het werk als trainer van AI-modellen als ChatGPT ΓΌberhaupt zin?
Stel een vraag aan een chatbot en je krijgt soms wartaal als antwoord. Jeroen van Bergeijk gaat als trainer aan de slag om AI-modellen nuttiger, vriendelijker en βmenselijkerβ te maken. Hoe bevredigen...
De afgelopen maanden werkte ik als AI-trainer om chatbots als ChatGPT nuttiger, vriendelijker en 'menselijker' te maken. Alles over mijn avonturen in deze 'droombaan' lees je in de @groene.nl van deze week. Met heerlijke illustraties van @kamagurka.bsky.social. www.groene.nl/artikel/heea...
30.04.2025 13:54 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Afl 202: 4chan | Onder Mediadoctoren
Waarom gaan extreem-rechts en memecultuur zo goed samen? In deze nieuwe aflevering verwonderen ons met @hetsalwel.bsky.social over 4chan ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-202-4chan/
22.03.2025 11:29 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
New search engine scraper tool by @best.wel.moe and @digitalmethods.net!
I added the feature to collect widgets from Google and Bing (it was a lot of work, please use it π).
Feedback welcome.
19.03.2025 12:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lots of new stuff!
19.02.2025 13:27 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Throwback to my proudest citation, from "Exhaustive Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature" arxiv.org/pdf/2204.06826
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The great Romanian election TikTok replay β Public Data Lab
In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following βserious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.β The electionsβ¦
π How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? π΅πΉ
π Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:
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they're finally adding the 25th hour
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damn
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Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / η€ΎδΌη§ε¦
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Critical theory and political philosophy.
Wrote a PhD about reification and resistance. Working on a project on the politics of everyday resistance.
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Managing editor @krisisjournal.bsky.social
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Social Philosophy & Critical Theory | Postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Social Research Frankfurt | Assistant Professor at University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht | Editor at Krisis Journal | Eco-Marxism & Ecological Economics
PhD Candidate in AI, Digital Culture, and Deep Learning. @University of Amsterdam. deep-culture.org. He/him.
STS | critical data/AI studies | social theory | synthetic data | digital archives
Research project interested in the relations between deep-learning technologies and cultures. We study the global transformations that deep learning has wrought on culture and how culture is in turn key to deep learning.
https://deep-culture.org
Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Journalist and writer
Migration, Balkans, external borders of Europe , De Groene Amsterdammer
Doctor of Social Science. Postdoc at University of Amsterdam in OSINT and russiaβs disinformation industry. Ex-frontend dev. Private account. #standwithukraine My newest article: https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2025.2559218
Journalist | schrijver | Winnaar Brusseprijs 2024 voor beste journalistieke boek βUndercover aan het werkβ
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PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam | Studying digital infrastructures, power and media in Europe | No business as usual during genocide π΅πΈ | he/him
CTO & Research Engineer at mΓ©dialab Sciences Po (Paris)
Cofounder of https://RegardsCitoyens.org & https://NosDeputes.fr
Long-term american comic books enthusiast!
https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/equipe/benjamin-ooghe-tabanou/
https://github.com/boogheta
Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
Interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and public engagement with digital culture. Based at King's College London.
Asso Prof @ UvA Media Studies || PI of ERC Research - China Africa Fashion Power (2022-27) || Editor of Intβl Journal of Fashion Studies || IIAS Board Member